FW: (CN) Elephant Abuse at Wang Cheng Park in Luoyang

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Tuesday, April 06, 2010 4:47 PM

 

Elephant Abuse at Wang Cheng Park in Luoyang, China

Posted by: fluffydasha

Mon Apr 5, 2010 4:06 pm ((PDT))

 

planetanimal

Monday, April 05, 2010 7:01 PM

Joy Gao ; kraaije

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Re: Elephant Abuse at Wang Cheng Park in Luoyang, China

 

Dear all,

This is heartbreaking. Is there an email we can write to and protest this?

Perhaps not only this Park people, but also the local government. If you can

find the emails for me, I will start a campaign very fast.

Joy, thanks for letting me know about this.

Rosa

 

RE: Elephant Abuse at Wang Cheng Park in Luoyang, China

Tue, 6 Apr 2010 09:47:32 +1200

 

Hi Paul,

Thank you for your email. I was heartbroken when I saw this article with

the chained elephants. Actually, this is just one of the many animal abuse

stories, there is a lot of animal abuse in the zoos or wildlife parks in

China. Thank you for your concern for the animals in China.

 

Kind Regards

Joy Gao

 

Please also see the link set by Rosa Close from The States about some

Chinese animal rescue groups in China:

http://www.people4chineseanimals.org/Beautiful_New_World.html

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The tourists complaining the elephants abuse at Wang Cheng Park in Luoyang,

China

 

On April the 2nd, a tourist (blog name: Rocket) has written an article in a

Chinese website called: http://www.dahe.cn/ He urges people to " save the

poor elephants at Wang Cheng Park in Luoyang! " . Luo Yang is a big city in

Henan Province.

 

Rocket said: the chained elephants found it hard to move, every step for

them was painful and tortured, which made horrified the tourists watching.

 

Rocket took some pictures and also taped a video which showed a couple of

children bothering the elephant, but the big elephant was limp, and did not

move at all. A little elephant beside the larger one felt anxious, and kept

waving his head.

 

Quite a lot of the tourists questioned the park about the chained elephants,

and said that they also have lives, they feel pain. Wang Cheng Park's

managers are so cruel!

 

The park wanted to make more money from selling food to children for feeding

the elephants, so they tied the elephants to the bar. Two big men were held

the ears of little elephant, while another used a sickle and a bat with

nails to beat him. It was clearly that his back was dark red with blood and

injuries from previous beatings. They used purple liquid medication to stop

infections in the elephant's injuries. The men were afraid of tourists

seeing, so they dragged the little elephant into a room nearby; you could

guess what was happened inside the room. The mother elephant looked worried

and kept looking in the direction of the room, but could not do anything.

After a while the little elephant was much more quiet when he was dragged

out again, you could see his back had a huge bleeding area or scratches and

injuries as well as his legs.

 

On April 2nd in the afternoon, a reporter was contacted to Luoyang Wang

Cheng Park.

One of the managers told the reporter: " We've got elephants tied up to

avoid having the elephants fight each other, and it is also convenient for

training. This is normal. " Another park officer said: " We chained them up to

avoid the elephants escaping from the bar. " When reporter asked: " Doesn't

it feel painful for the elephant? " The park officer said: " It doesn't

matter, this is the way to do it. "

 

The director of Luoyang Wang Cheng Park Mr. Li told the reporter that the

elephants were imported from Africa last year. They said that they were

pretty wild; one of the elephant had broken teeth. To avoid them hurting

the tourists and the feeders, we tided them up temporarely, and will unchain

them when they are more gentle. There was a feeder that had gotten hurt

before. For the tourists that complained about animal cruelty, Mr. Li said

that because the skin of elephant is quite thick, beating gently doesn't

work. He said that each elephant costs 6 or 700,000 RMB (around 100,000

US$), so they do not want to treat them badly.

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The forwarded news came from:

http://news.wenxuecity.com/messages/201004/news-gb2312-1054519.html

 

Translated by Joy Gao

April 6 2010